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E. L. LOMAX, 

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W. H. MURRAY, 

Ass't Gen'l Pass'r Agt. 
OMAHA, NEB. 



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JUST TWENTY YEARS AGO 




Mrs. D. L. Miller 



PREFACE 



This is not an attempt at the biography of a 
man; neither is it the history of a church or a 
group of churches. No, it is an interesting com- 
pilation of facts and figures, a pleasant reminder of 
the period that passed us some twenty years ago, 
and a conservative, yet comprehensive view of 
conditions as they exist to-day. 

The tabulated list of churches found herein, 
shows to the thoughtful reader the wonderful 
amount of real missionary work done in the West 
within the last two decades. It is the impossible 
that is always being accomplished, in a way. 
Who thought twenty years ago, when the confer- 
ence was at Harrisonburg, that churches of the 
Brethren would line the Pacific Coast from one 
end to the other in so short a time? Could this 
have been accomplished on the regular plan of 
individual missionary work? 

Does it pay? Answer this for yourself after 
you have studied the table. Missionary work by 
colonization does more permanent, stable work and 
does it quicker than any other form of mission 
work. It relieves congested centers in the East, 
and carries the workers to a new field where each 
becomes a factor responsible, rather than sitting 



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at ease in Zion. This may be partly why the 
growth of the West has been so rapid. 

These extracts from the Gospel Messenger, and 
the Missionary Visitor, are authority on the exact 
conditions to-day as to statistics, location, stage 
of development, etc.. without special embellish- 
ment but unvarnished as they exist. 




AN APPRECIATION 



In a very humble abode — the basement of the 
flouring mills — on the banks of the Conococheague, 
a few miles out from Hagerstown, Washington 
County, Maryland, on the 5th day of October, 
1841, Daniel Long Miller was born. Had the 
father "shut down" the grinding in honor of his 
first born by his second wife? If so, at the most it 
was but for a short time; for by the careful, faith- 
ful and conscientious attention to his milling, 
Abram Miller had not only earned to himself a 
good reputation, but some means. The water 
from the mill pond at least did not stop dashing jjjg 
over the wheel, and the man of great activity all Birthday 
through life had the first lessons of movement and 
stir drilled into him while yet in the cradle. 

Daniel is the first of thirteen children, five of 
whom died in infancy or early youth, and the 
remaining eight lived to maturity. Of the seven 
brothers, six have been active church officials in 
the Brethren church. Such is the impress of god- 
liness made, perhaps, more especially by the 
mother, Catherine Long Miller, upon her children. 

Daniel grew just like all boys grow. First he 
played about the mill; when older, in summer 
time, he w^ent swimming, fished along the creek 
and had the good time of a boy living in one of 



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those beauty spots of rural life rarely excelled 
anywhere. In winter, when not at work, a good 
skate or hunt was much enjoyed. Schooling was 
a rather rare thing those days and Daniel's 
country school training was meagre enough. In 
all about six successive years of four months' sub- 
scription school and one term of district school 
was the sum total of educational advantages till 
he reached twenty-one. Instead, it was the father's 
farm during summer time, and the father's mill 
during the winter. 

An unusual love for reading prompted Daniel 
from his youth to carefully study the few books 
that came w^ithin his reach. He did not neglect 
the Bible among them, for in childhood he used 
to look at the pictures and read the story part. 
This love for the religious story never departed 
from him. Perhaps he has read Pilgrim's 
Progress, that wonderful story of Christian life, as 
many as twenty-five times. 

When twenty years old he went "far West"— 
to the vicinity of Mt. Morris, Illinois — with his 
Grandfather Long and Uncle Dan Zellers. He 
made several trips back and forth, when at last 
he made Illinois his home. On one of these 
return trips East — February 22, 1863 — ^he was 
received into the Brethren church by baptism. 
This was the beginning of a new life to him. He 
turned his attention to preparing to teach country 
school; taught two terms near Hagerstown, Md. 



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and was planning to enter Miller's Normal School 
to prepare for teaching as a life work. Financial 
failure on the part of a firm for which he worked, 
and through which he himself lost all his accumu- 
lated earnings, changed his plans. 

At about this time he met Miss Elizabeth 
Talley, in Philadelphia, and some time after — 
February 6, 1868 — they were united in marriage. 
Daniel had already established himself in mer- His 
cantile lines in Polo, Illinois, and there they Marriage 
began life on a very small scale. Fortune smiled 
on them. Yes, that fortune that comes from 
long hours in the store and the strictest economy. 
It smiled and they were doing well. But one day 
it frowned, and the man with a good start in 
business, was worth less than nothing. 

Not being daunted by this sore experience, 
Daniel buckled to the fray in new lines, and again 
fortune smiled on him. From the sale of butter 
and eggs to the larger business of a grocer he 
prospered and added to his capital, year by year. 

During this period he was not negligent of 
growth in grace. They lived in town; the Brethren 
church was in the country some six miles distant. 
And few, comparatively, were the Sundays they 
were not found in their places. But that was not 
enough. Teaching in the Methodist Sunday 
school, active in the village prayer meetings, and 
through other similar avenues, did he develop 
Christian character. 



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The village honored him with the position of 
town clerk. It was the days of emigration to the 
still farther West — Kansas. Daniel was an agent 
who helped to make the first settlements in Reno 
County, Kansas, in the days when it was said the 
land was a desert and the settlers could not only 
raise nothing but would perhaps starve to death 
^ before they could get to food. He enjoyed the 

unenviable reputation and severe criticisms of an 
immigration agent who was sending colonists into 
a land that made little promise to be as good as 
Kansas now is. 

In 1873 his mother died. She had sat down 
to write him a letter, had finished two pages when 
she was called to entertain some company and 
before she returned to the letter, God called her. 
Years after Daniel came across this letter. In the 
days of his ripe manhood, thus in part he wrote 
about her last letter: "Only an old, tear-stained 
letter with its message of love from a mother 
heart, as pure as the breath of angels and as 
unselfish as aught human can be. I have read 
it over again and again today, as I enter upon the 
sixty-second year of my earthly pilgrimage; and, 
as I read, how the memories of the years gone 
forever come thronging and trooping before me. 
The dear old hom.e, the happy days of childhood, 
before dull, corroding care touched the heart 
and seamed the face, when the shadows flitted 
quickly and all joyous years were full of sunshine 



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and childish happiness, when I laid my weary 
head upon the pillow made by God and cried 
when I was taken away from it, and cried again 
when it was taken away from me, cried and would 
not be comforted because there had gone out of 
my life its chief center. " 

In 1879, after much deliberation, D. L. Miller, 
as he was then becoming to be familiarly known 
in Northern Illinois, decided to sell his business in 
Polo and accept an invitation from M. S. New- 
comer to be business manager of Mt. Morris 
College, just recently purchased by the latter. 
He, of course, brought with him the business 
methods and thoroughness that insured success 
wherever he applied himself. He revealed at 
Mt. Morris his ability in handling men. For in 
his new position he was loved by both teacher 

and student. After helping to get the institution „ ,, 

I r 1 • , 1 1 1 • r • College 
on a good foundation, he planned his hrst trip ^ °_ 

abroad, going to Germany, in main to study lan- 
guage and better prepare himself for the position he 
was now occupying. The year before this, 1882, 
however, he joined partnership with Joseph Amick 
of Indiana in the publishing interests of the 
Brethren at Work and at the time greatly embar- 
rassed financially. In 1883 he was elected Presi- 
dent of the Board of Trustees, which office he 
later accepted and has held till this day. In the 
same year he and his wife sailed for Europe and 
extended their trip to Palestine. He wrote for 



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Trustee 



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the Messenger and these articles became the basis 
of that first and perhaps best book of his, "Europe 
and Bible Lands." They visited Denmark, Swe- 
den, and in Germany spent considerable time at 
the University of Halle. Later they went to 
Palestine and toured the Holy Land riding tw^enty- 
one days on horseback. 

Upon his return, in 1884, he was elected a 
member of the first General Missionary Committee, 
and by it made secretary and treasurer. He has 
served on this committee continuously to this day. 

This was the beginning of general missions 
for the Brethren. If the total contributions of a 
day reached as much as $100 it made more stir 
in Mt. Morris through D. L.'s telling it with joy, 
than a hundred times that amount now does. 

Years were filled with many important events 
from now on. In 1885 he was appointed office 
editor of the Messenger; elected to the deacon's 
office, and chosen superintendent of the Silver 
Creek Sunday School. In 1887 he was called to 
the ministry and the year following ordained to 
the eldership. During these years he kept steadily 
in the editorial chair and his w^ritings did much to 
unify the church and raise her ideals. 

He longed for another trip abroad, and secur- 
ing J. H. Moore to take his place as office editor 
of the Messenger, he planned a trip to Europe to 
include Egypt and Palestine. Sister Miller's 



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health became such on the journey that they 
returned after visiting the churches in Europe. 

In 1891 he represented northern Illinois on 
Standing Committee for the first time, and was 
chosen writing clerk, which position he has filled 
five times. He has been moderator twice. 

With the return from the tour through Europe 
and Egypt 1892-3 D. L. took up lecturing, giving 
his entire time to Bible-land talks; 1895 found 
him and his wife starting on their first trip around 
the world. In 1896 he made a proposition in 
which, by giving, on the annuity plan, nearly two- 
fifths of the capital stock of the Brethren Publish- 
ing Co. this business was secured for the church 
and taken over by the General Missionary Com- 
mittee. April 1, 1897. 

It pleased the Lord not to give them children 
after the flesh, but the following are the children 
of his mind and heart — books that have done much 
for the development of the church: 

"Europe and Bible Lands." 

"Wanderings in Bible Lands." 

"Seven Churches of Asia." 

"Girdling the Globe." 

"Eternal Verities." 

"The Other Half of the Globe." 

Sister Miller also wrote "Letters to the Young." 

But of all the blessings which the Father has 
bestowed upon His people through D. L., no one 
is more appreciated than that he is still living and 



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by letters and other avenues open to him is 
lending help wherever he can. His one great 
prayer in later years is that there be no root of 
division ever grow up among God's people. For 
this he works faithfully. He has tried to make 
his life one used of God, and w^hile he has his 
weaknesses as other men, yet it may justly be said 
that few^ have excelled him in faithfulness, fair- 
ness to all, and devotion to the church of his 
youth and her God. 




STATISTICS 

{From "The Missionary Visitor") 



If any one is In doubt about the good results 
of spreading the Gospel through colonization just 
let him study the table of the growth of the church 
by congregations as given in the following list of 
frontier states and states districts: 

1889 1899 1909 

Washington None 5 1 3 

Oregon, 6 6 9 

Idaho None 4 9 

Northern California None None 8 

Southern California, 2 8 13 

North Dakota. ? II 23 

Total 8 34 75 

Some pessimist may say that this has been 
done to the detriment of the older churches. 
There may be instances, too, where this is true, 
but in such places the fault rested with the 
congregation and not the colonists. Had the 
former shown proper courage and determination 
emigrants would be a blessing to those behind in 
bringing out latent talent and putting it to work. 
The blessing to the colonists cannot be measured. 

The list of churches above is according to the 
minutes of the respective districts as near as can 
be ascertained by files in the office of the General 
Mission Board. 



Names of churches in Cahfornia, Oregon, Idaho and Wash- 
ington at the time of the Annual Meeting at 
Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1889. 



WASHING- 
TON 


OREGON 


IDAHO 


NORTH 
CALIFORNIA 


SOUTH 
CALIFORNIA 


None 


Salem 
Coquille 
Rogue River 
Lebanon 
Powells Valley 
Mohawn Valley 


None 


None 


Covina 
Conejo 



At the time of Annual Meeting at Roanoke, Virginia, in 1899. 



Spokane 


Salem 


Moscow 


None 


Egan 


Oysterville 


Coquille 


Nampa 
Nez Perce 




Colton 


Stiverson 


Rogue River 




Dos Palos 


Centralia 


Lebanon 


Grafton 




Glendale, Ariz. 


Sunnyside 


Powells Valley 
Mohawk Valley 






Los Angeles 
Inglewood 
Lordsburg 
Covina 



At the time of Annual Meeting at 
in 1909. 



Harrisonburg, Virginia, 



Centralia 


Ashland 


Clearwater 


Butte Valley 


Covina 


Myers Creek 


Coquille 


Idaho Falls 


Fruitvale 


Egan 


North Yakima 


Lebanon 


* Moscow 


Oak Grove 


Glendora 


*Oysterville 


Mohawk Valley 


Nampa 


Reedley 


Glendale 


Spokane 


Newberg 


Nez Perce 


SacramentoValley 


Inglewood 


Stjverson 


Portland 


Payette 


Stanislaus 


Los Angeles 


Sunnyside 


Rogue River 


Weiser 


Raisin City 


Lordsburg 


Wenatchee 


Weston 


Boise Valley 


Chico 


Long Beach 


Tekoa 


* Powells Valley 


Twin Falls 




Pasadena 


East Wenatchee 




*Grafton 




Pomona 


Seattle 








South Los Angeles 


Olympia 








Santa Ana 


Mt. Hope 








Tropico 



Possibly disorganized. 



Eighteer 



AFTER TWENTY YEARS 



By D. L. Miller 

(In "Gospel Messenger") 




HE Doctor said, in answer to an inquiry, 
"Yes! a trip to California may be help- 
ful to you. Go and settle down in a 
quiet, restful place, spend the winter 
outdoors, in the sunshine, among the flowers, and 
it will do you good. " An Oriental proverb says, 
"The wise man first finds out the kind of advice 
his friends want and acts accordingly." A good 
rule if you want your advice taken, but not up to 
the standard of Christian ethics. The Doctor's 
advice was in accord with our desires, therefore 
easy to take. Result, this writing finds us quietly 
resting in the beautiful college town of Lordsburg, 
California, in the land of sunshine and flowers. 

And the sunshine and flowers are here. Our 
generous hostess. Sister Thom'as Keiser, has just 
brought in a great handful of large, beautiful 
chrysanthemums, such as Eastern florists sell at 
this season of the year at two dollars per dozen, 
and in the dooryards about here hundreds of them 
are in full bloom. And the roses and sweet violets, 
and the carnations and geraniums, are doing their 



Chrysan- 
themums 
in 
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best in vying with each other in beauty of color 
and sweetness of fragrance. Then, too, the orange 
groves are laden with a great burden of fruit, 
already taking on the color of gold, and soon 
pickers and packers will be busy getting the fruit 
ready for the market. Also, the days, and days, 
of bright, warm sunshine are here, and it all seems 
like a fairy land, when compared with the pitiless 
ice and snow of the Northwest. 

It is said that the world is smaller now than it 
used to be. Perhaps it were nearer the truth to 
say that we have learned the secret of annihilating 
distances, and have brought remote places closer 
together, in point of time. Some of our readers 
will easily remember when the journey from the 
Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast took from 
four to six months of weary ox team w^ork, and of 
Hotel watchfulnessagainst hostile Indians. Nowyoumay 
on take the Los Angeles Limited in Chicago, via the 

Wheels North-Western, Union Pacific, and San Pedro rail- 
ways, and in seventy-two hours reach Los Angeles. 
These seventy-two hours you may spend in a first- 
class hotel on wheels, passing over as fine a roadbed 
as is to be found in the country. You have a 
comfortable bed, a library and reading room, with 
all the latest papers and best magazines, your meals 
served regularly; or, if you prefer, you may enjoy 
the luxury of a well-filled lunch basket en route. 
And this run is not exceptional. Every day in 
the week, and every week in the year, one of 



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these limited trains arrives in Los Angeles on 
time, no unavoidable delay preventing. 

Kindly indulge me in a bit of prophecy: 
Within the experience of many who are now liv- 
ing, Chicago and Los Angeles will be less than 
fifteen hours apart. Then the air-ship, now in its 
first stage of crude development, will have been 
brought to a high degree of perfection. Then will 
the great aero-motor navigate the air, crossing the 
continent as the crow flies, from New York to 
San Francisco, in twenty hours or less. Passengers ^ ^ 

will be carried with greater safety and more com- 
fort than now. There will be first and second 
class berths and a dining room for the one or two 
meals necessary on the trip. One may then eat 
an early breakfast in Chicago and a late supper 
in Los Angeles, making the entire trip by day- 
light. 

If you are in doubt as to the coming of the 
air-ship of the future, call to mind how, fifty years 
ago, the horseless carriage was thought to be the 
wildest fancy of a disordered brain, and how, 
nowadays, a record of seventy miles an hour is 
not an unusual thing for our best automobiles. 
Then look over the Congressional Record, and 
read the speeches, made by eminent statesmen, 
when the Union Pacific Railway bill was under 
consideration, who said it would be impossible to 
build an engine powerful enough to carry water 
and coal, in sufficient quantity, to run it across 



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the Great American Desert. Also call to memory 
how, when Fulton was applying steam to naviga- 
tion, an English statesman of renown said, iron- 
ically, that he would agree to eat the first engine 
that propelled a boat across the Atlantic. 

The last half of the nineteenth century wit- 
nessed wonderful discoveries, and all these are 
to be surpassed in the first half of the twentieth. 
We are on the threshold of some of the most 
important discoveries the world has known. 

And what remarkable changes in railways 
have taken place in the last half century! Then the 
first line across the continent — the Union Pacific 
— had just been opened and it belonged to the 
Rough Rider class of roads. Now there are half 
a dozen or more transcontinental lines, and more 
are building, and you will find no better road- 
bed in the country. 

When the first road was constructed, engi- 
neers and builders sought the line of least resist- 
ance. Great curves were made to avoid tunnels, 
cuts and fills, and the line materially lengthened. 
And little wonder, for Uncle Sam generously 
aided the company to the extent of twenty thou- 
sand dollars per mile — a sum in excess of the cost 
of that part of the road laid across level plains, 
and through the great valleys. So the curves 
were made, the cost of construction lessened and 
the miles of road increased. In these modern 
days of railway combinations more money has 



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been spent in taking out the curves, and in 
the betterment of the Hne, than was spent in its 
building. 

The Great Salt Lake Cut-off is a striking 
example of improvement. When the road was 
built, the track was laid around the end of the lake. 
A few years ago Mr. Harriman determined to run 
the line across the lake, and this great feat of 




Going to Sea by Rail 

engineering has been accomplished at a cost of 
multiplied millions of dollars, and now, in going 
to San Francisco, you cross the lake and save an 
hour or more in time. So the curves have been 



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taken out of the old roadbed, tunnels have been 
bored through hills and mountains, deep cuts 
opened, valleys filled and the line made shorter 
and better. 

But to reach Los Angeles from Salt Lake, one 

had to make the trip to San Francisco, a distance 

of eight hundred miles, and then travel south five 

Chicago hundred miles, before reaching this city in the 

to Los land of sunshine and flowers. This distance of 

Angeles five hundred miles has been cut out and a road 

in has been built from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, 

Three Days following a valley of easy grades and slight 

curves, thus making it possible to reach Los 

Angeles from Chicago in three days by this 

route. 

It is popular, these days, to berate the rail- 
roads and to belittle the good they have done. 
The writer believes in giving them full credit for 
what they have accomplished in opening up and 
developing the country. Without the aid of the 
roads, the American Desert would be a desert 
still, and our Great Western Empire, undeveloped, 
would be the home of the buffalo and the savage. 
Honor to whom honor is due, and a square deal 
and just treatment to all alike, is what is asked 
for, and every just and righteous man will accord 
this. If wrongs have been done in the past, let 
these be righted, as far as possible, and the ave- 
nues for wrongdoing be carefully guarded in the 
future, but do not let us fall in with the clamor 

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against one of the greatest factors in the devel- 
opment of our country. 

Our colored porter on the sleeper was, in a 
way, a character worth studying. It was noticed 
that he spoke the English language fluently and 
correctly. One would have taken him for an A 
educated man anywhere. Upon inquiry we Contrast 
learned that he was born in British New Guinea, of 
When a lad he was taken into the home of a good Color 
missionary. These people educated him and he and 
lived with the family until it was broken up by Caste 
death. He lived in Africa and in India, where he 
learned to speak Hindustanee. Later he came with 
the missionaries to Europe, where his benefactor 
died. He then found his way to Chicago, where 
he graduated from the Illinois Dental College, 
working his way through the school. He is now 
serving as a porter, in order to secure money to 
open a dental office among his own people. 
Here is an illustration of what the genuine colored 
man can do if given an opportunity. 

And, by contrast, here is what white men may 
become by choice, if they follow the ways of sin. 
At Barstow, our train stopped in the early 
morning to take water and fuel. A half dozen 
tramps, who had been riding all night on the rods 
and bars underneath the cars, crawled out from 
their perilous riding places, and a harder looking 
lot of human beings one seldom sees in this 
world. The night had been cold with frost and 



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snow, their clothing was covered with frost crys- 
tals and when they came out of their uncomfort- 
able quarters, they were so cramped and stiffened 
with cold that they were scarcely able to walk. 
One felt, at the first, inclined to pity these young 
men, but then they are tramps from choice, and 
choose this life rather than a life of honesty and 
of helpful service, so that one feels they are only 
getting what they bargain for. The educated 
colored man, working as a porter inside the car, 
is far in advance of the white tramp, stealing a 
ride on the railway, and stealing his living and 
more. 

At this writing we are at Lordsburg, California. 
The Bible Term is in session now and w^e are hav- 
ing interesting meetings. Yesterday, Lord's Day, 
Bro. James Gilbert preached in the morning, and 
Bro. E. T. Keiser in the evening. After the even- 
ing services two came forward, determining to 
leave the world and its allurements, and to unite 
with the people of God. 

These beautiful, restful days pass aw^ay so 
quickly that we can not realize that winter is over, 
and now, the last of the first month of the year, 
• Ti«^.j we are in the midst of garden making. The 

-\Tr-„+pr ground is being prepared, and peas, radishes, let- 

tuce and the hardier vegetables are being planted. 
The much-needed rains came. Last year it w^as 
very dry in the Golden State, and it was a pleasure 

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Vegetables 



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to see the water come down. There was no wind 
and the generous bounty of heaven fell upon the 
earth gently, soaking the dry ground and assuring 
plenteous crops. Already the rainfall at Lords- 
burg is above the average and more will come 
later in the season. 

And now the valley and hills, south of us, are 
putting on their spring robe of verdure, the 
mocking birds are making the air ring with their 




Union Pa;ific Main Line near Kearney- Nebraska, showing Sherman 
Gravel Ballast and Block Signals. 

polyglot songs, and the sweet violets, at their best, 
are scenting the air with delicate perfume. In 
the north the rain turned to snow, on the moun- 
tain range, and "Old Baldy" and the twin Cuca- 
monga Peaks are covered with mantles of white. 



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Snow there, only a few miles away, and here the 
orange groves are laden with a great burden of 
golden fruit, ready in tempting juiciness and 
sweetness for the eastern markets. 

These days, when the sun shines, in all his 
splendor, his rays fall on mountain and peak, and 
they glisten and sparkle like masses of burnished 
silver, set with millions of diamonds. The other 
evening we were called out to see the beauties of 
the setting sun. The western sky was all glorious 
s ^jj-]^ God's most beautiful colors, and in a most 
impressive way the heavens declared the glory of 
God. The afterglow of the departing god of day 
painted the silver crest of mountain peak in crim- 
son and gold, and it was a sight once seen never 
to be forgotten. Surely those who live amid such 
surroundings ought to lead better lives and come 
closer to God than the denizens of the crowded 
city. 

But it is not my purpose to write only of the 
beautiful scenery of this favored land. It is all 
fascinating enough, but there are other items of 
interest for our readers and we turn to these. 

Recently we enjoyed several meetings and a 
love feast with the members of the East Los 
Angeles church. Elder S. G. Lehmer is in charge 
and the organization maintains two City Missions, 
one known as the Channing Street Mission and 
the other as the Santa Fe Mission. At present, 
as in the past, good work has been and is being 

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clone. The love feast was largely attended, all 
available space in the churchhouse being filled. 
The feast was an enjoyable one. and a deep 
feeling of spirituality pervaded the meeting. 
The absence of Elders Stephen Yoder and . 
Peter S. Myers brought vividly to mind that death 
called away these two veterans of the cross since 
we last met with the church at this place. The ^ 
several services we had the privilege of attending 
showed good interest in the work, as was mani- 
fest by the large and appreciative audiences 
present. A prosperous Sunday school adds inter- 
est to the church work. 

Within the last few years a new organization 
has been effected in the city, known as the South 
Los Angeles church, with an aggressive member- 
ship of about one hundred, and with the largest 
Brethren Sunday school, 1 am told, in the state. 
Brother and Sister William Wertenbaker are in 
pastoral charge of the work, with Brother William 
Trostle as elder. They are doing a good work, and 
the Lord is blessing their efforts. Among the mem- 
bership are found many who were baptized during 
a series of meetings held in the city five years ago. 

While in the city we attended one session of 
the Berean Bible School held in the East Los 
Angeles church. Brother M. M. Eshelman is in T>„-.g3„ 
charge, assisted by Sisters Lehmer and Hollinger. c„i-„„i 
Sister Lehmer is a Mount Morris student and 
will be remembered by many as an earnest. 



Just Twenty Years Ago 

spiritually-minded Christian. Sister Hollinger is 
from our old home church, Broadfording, Mary- 
land, and it seemed good to meet one from the 
old home, although the difference in age is that 
of grandparent to grandchild. There were 
twenty-two students present and they were earnest 
in their endeavor to become better acquainted 
with the Book of God. Once a week a session is 
held at Tropico and another at the Santa Fe 
Mission. 

A score of years ago we visited Covina for the 
first time. A church had just been organized — 
the first Brethren church in the State — a new 
house of worship was being built, and there was 
not a Brethren Sunday school in the State. Now 
there are two State Districts, a large number of 
Twenty Sunday schools, and a total membership of not 
Years ^^^ from fifteen hundred. At Covina there is a 
j^go large congregation, a flourishing Sunday school 
and an aggressive Christian Workers' organization. 
Brother George Chemberlen, one of our regular 
contributors, is elder in charge of the church, 
and is assisted in the work by Brethren David J. 
Overholtzer and A. M. White. Brother White 
is attending the Berean Bible School. At present 
Brother Moses Deardorf is holding a series of 
meetings at Covina. 

Lordsburg, like all our school churches, is 
blessed with a large number of ministers. Active 
and inactive, there are sixteen on the list, nine of 



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whom are elders. A large number of ministers 
in a church is not always an unmixed blessing, 
especially when a few try to monopolize the work. 
Here the preaching and the work in general 
are so divided that each one knows his work 
and does it. There is no clashing, and all 
work together in peace. As a result the Brethren 
have the largest membership — about two hun- 







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dred — in the place. The services are largely 
attended. A live Sunday school, a Christian 
Workers meeting and a weekly prayer meeting 
give all who are inclined an opportunity to work 
for Christ and the church. 

Temporally, this part of the State is enjoying 
a season of great prosperity. Covina and Lords- 
burg are in the center of the orange district, and 



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burg 



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the groves are among the best in the country, 
rivaling even the famous Riverside orchards. Ten 
years ago raw land sold here at about a hundred 
One dollars an acre. The same land, planted at that 

Hundred time in oranges, is selling as high as two thousand 
Dollars dollars an acre. A brother at Covina sold his ten- 
to Two acre grove for twenty thousand dollars, and the 
Thousand purchaser sold seven thousand dollars' worth of 
Dollars in fruit from it in one year. Near Lordsburg, an 
Ten Years eighteen-acre grove, without buildings, sold a 
few weeks ago for thirty-six thousand dollars. 
These prices seem startling enough to the "tender- 
foot" from the East, but they are the usual 
thing here. 

A score of years ago Brother George L. Mc- 
Donaugh, so well and favorably known among 
our people, took an active part in the coloniza- 
, tion of this locality. Not all who came were 

pleased with the country and many discouraging 
reports were brought to the East from this locality, 
and some were severe in their criticisms. Those 
who invested and remained, are now enjoying 
the fruits of their labors. Moral: Never he too 
hast}) in condemning a new country. The spies sent over 
Moral ^^ ^<^"^<^" made that mistake. Not all who came 

prospered, but those mho bought land, planted oranges, 
worked with their hands, and took care of what the^ 
had, have prospered beyond their most sanguine ex- 
pectations. The hope is expressed that, while 
they have prospered in adding to their store of 



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earthly goods, they may also have prospered in spir- 
itual things, for the earthly perishes with the using, 
but the spiritual and the unseen endure forever. 

No one can say, "I have seen California," unless 
he has traveled over and examined the resources 
of the San Joaquin Valley, the largest of all the 
large valleys in the State. It lies between the 
towering ranges of the Sierra Nevada Mountains 
on the east, and the Coast Range on the west, and 
extends south from the Siskiyous to Tehachapi, a ^^^ 
distance of two hundred and fifty miles. The Joaqum 
average width of the valley is about sixty miles. Valley 
It has an area of thirty-four thousand square miles, 
is more than one-third the size of Italy, and out of 
its area you might carve the states of New Hamp- 
shire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, 
and Maryland, and have territory enough left for 
another little Rhode Island. 

Given plenty of water and good drainage — for 
in irrigation you must not only have plenty of 
water but the drainage to get rid of it after the 
using — the land of the valley is, for the most part, 
very fertile. Alkali is found in spots, all over the 
valley, but, where there is drainage, this is soon 
cleared out. Flowing across the San Joaquin 
Valley are five rivers, fed from the snow^s of the 
Sierras, affording abundant water for irrigation. 
Where this is not available, water is secured by 
putting down wells and pumping it to the surface 
with windmills and gasoline engines. 



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Fruitful 
Fruits 



Grain of all kinds is grown, and the valley is 
the home of the deciduous fruits. Oranges and 
lemons of fine quality are grown, and the vine 
produces the finest clusters of luscious grapes to 
be found in the w^orld. In Fresno County, over 
five million dollars worth of raisins are produced 
annually. Two tons and a half of raisins are pro- 
duced to the acre of vineyard and they are of the 
finest quality. They bring to the owner an aver- 
age price of about three and a half cents per 
pound, giving a good return for labor and money 
invested. Alfalfa grows luxuriantly, and dairying 
is an important industry. The flowers furnish 
honey for the bees, and the valley may be said to 
flow with milk and honey. 

The climate is mild and, for the midsummer 
months, dry and hot. The rains occur in winter, 
and then there is a good deal of cloudy and foggy 
weather. The mercury falls as low as twenty-five 
degrees in winter, and mounts up to one hundred 
and fifteen in summer. The heat is dry, and those 
who live here say it is not as hard to bear as the 
humid heat in the East, when the mercury lingers 
near the 100 degree mark. This dry heat and 
intense sunshine fills the cells of the fruit with 
much sugar, and makes raisin grow^ing possible. 
The grape has such an abundance of sugar in its 
cells that the great clusters are cut from the 
branches, laid on trays in the vineyard, dried in 
the hot sun, put in boxes and taken to the packing 



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houses, where they are packed and shipped to all 
parts of the country. Peaches, nectarines, apri- 
cots, and other fruits, are dried in the open air, 
and thousands of tons from the San Joaquin Valley 
find their way annually to all the markets of this 
country. There are millions of peach trees in the 
valley, and these were just coming into full bloom 
as we passed through. It was a most beautiful 
sight and reminded one of the cherry blossom 
season in Japan. 




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Churches 
of 

Northern 
California 



Chico 
and 
Butte 
Valley 



Years ago a number of our Brethren, pioneers 
on the Coast, settled in the San Joaquin Valley. 
At Stockton, Lathrop, and in the vicinity of 
Modesto, they lived and organized the Stanislaus 
church — one among the first in the State. In 
later years this church became weakened and 
now there are but three members of that organ- 
ization in that part of the valley. We now have 
churches at Princeton, Chico and Bangor, in the 
Sacramento Valley, Laton, Raisin City and 
Reedley, in the San Joaquin Valley, and, north of 
the Siskiyous, the Butte Valley church in Butte 
Valley. 

We visited three of these churches and would 
gladly have visited all of them, if our health had 
been what it once was. Especially did we desire 
to go to Chico, where Brother Hiram Forney labors, 
and to the Butte Valley church, under the care 
of Elder H. F. Maust. These visits, if made at all, 
will be enjoyed in the future. We name the three 
visited in the order in which we were with them. 

The Raisin City church was organized one year 
ago and has a membership of forty-five, an active 
ministry, a live Sunday school and a well-organ- 
ized Christian Workers' society. Brother Harvey 
Eikenberry, formerly of Greene, Iowa, is elder in 
charge, and has, for his co-laborers in the ministry, 
Elders Levi Whistler and D. H. Weaver. A large 
schoolhouse has been built and the largest room 
is being used for preaching and other services. 



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A meeting-house is to be built, ground for which 
has been donated in the town by Brother J. S. 
Kuns. For the present the schoolroom affords am- 
ple accommodations. Raisin City is fourteen miles 
from Fresno and the water for irrigation is pumped 
from old Mother Earth, and they tell me the 
supply is inexhaustible. Our Brethren are putting 
up substantial buildings, and express themselves 
as being well pleased and satisfied with their pros- 
pects for the future. Land is selling at from forty 
to eighty dollars an acre. 

At Raisin City our well-beloved and faithful 
brother, Elder A. W. Vaniman, closed his earthly 
labors and went home to rest. He was the first 
of our ministers to locate at the place, and, had 
his life been spared, w^ould have taken an active 
part in the work of building up the church. His 
body lies in the only grave in the new cemetery, 
but the city of the dead will grow as well as the 
city of the living. 

Southeast of Fresno, twenty-four miles, is 
Reedley. Six years ago we visited the town, and 
then no members were here. May 10, 1905, the 
Reedley church was organized with ten members. 
Now they have a large and prosperous congrega- 
tion of one hundred and twenty-five members, a 
live Sunday school, with an average attendance 
of one hundred and seventeen, and a wide-awake 
Christian Workers' meeting. A large churchhouse 
affords accommodations for the services, but it is 



Raisin 
City 



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already becoming too small for the growing con- 
gregations, and plans are being thought of for 
enlarging the house. Since the organization of ths 
church twenty-five have been added by baptism. 
Brother D. L. Forney, who spent a number of 
years in the India Mission, is elder in charge, 
Reedley assisted by an efficient corps of ministers and 
deacons. Brother Forney often finds himself long- 
ing for India. Reedley is in the midst of the 
raisin and fruit industry. Unimproved land sells 
at from $50 to $100 an acre, while land planted 
in fruit trees and vines brings from $150 to $500 
per acre. 

A hundred miles north of Fresno, w^e reached 
the little city of Modesto, where our brother, Levi 
Winklebleck, has his home. He came here 
several months ago, and is well pleased with the 
country. Years ago we used to visit his home 
in Hartford City, Indiana, and were glad to meet 
with this kind Christian family again. Brother 
Winklebleck took us east of Modesto five miles, to 
Empire where several families of our Brethren 
have recently settled, and more are to come. Eld- 
er J. W. Dierdorff, of North Dakota, has located 
about a half mile from the proposed tow^nsite of 
Empire, and has put up, for temporary use, a regu- 
lation North Dakota shack, which w^ill serve them 
until they build their house. Brother Dietrich is 
living in a similar residence near by. These 
brethren w^e found busy planting trees, and get- 



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ting their homes ready for permanent occupancy. 
These, who have recently come, added to the old 
members of the Stanislaus church, increase the 
number to fifteen. At an early date the church 
will be reorganized, and steps will be taken 
tow^ard securing a house of w^orship. 

The country about Modesto has been settled 
up for many years and one sees many evidences 
of prosperity. Until within the last few years, 
the land w^as about all sown to wheat, but now^ 
the large wheat ranches are being subdivided and 
sold in small tracts at $125 per acre. So far as Modesto 
we could observe, there is a good deal of similar- 
ity in the soil in the different parts of the valley. 
At some places there is more sand than at others. 
Some of the soil is darker and heavier, and is 
said to be richer than the lighter soils. One can 
find a difference in the same locality. 

It would now seem that not many years hence 
many congregations of the Church of the Brethren 
will be dotted over this great valley. There 
appears to be promise of temporal prosperity, and 
we express the earnest desire that far greater 
will be the spiritual prosperity, for the temporal 
perishes with the using, but the spiritual endureth 
forever. It is not the seen but the unseen that is 
eternal. Money, some one has said, is an article 
that will serve as a pass to anywhere but heaven, 
a commodity that will produce anything except 
human happiness. 



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Forty 



MISSIONARY WORK 

BY 

COLONIZATION 



The winter so pleasantly, and, we trust, profit- 
ably spent in California, passed all too quickly 
and we were on our homeward way. We took 
the Southern Route, taking in the cities of Yuma, 
El Paso, San Antonio (the largest city of Texas, 
noted for the massacre of Americans by the Mexi- 
can troops under Santa Ana, in the old Mission 
fortress, known as the Alamo, which led imme- Southern 
diately to the Mexican war), Houston, and the Route 
great southern city of New Orleans. Starting at 
Benson, Arizona, the Harriman Lines have just 
finished a new railway south into Mexico, reach- 
ing the Gulf at Mazatlan. It is said that this line 
opens up the most salubrious and fertile states of 
our sister republic. It will be worth while to look 
into the opportunities offered in this newly-opened 
country, for missionary work by colonization. 

To us the tour through the extreme Southern 
States was full of interest. The large plantation 
houses, around which are grouped the typical 
negro cabins, built of logs hewn on two sides. 



Just Twenty Years Ago 



Four 
Coast 
States 



Just 
Twenty 
Years 
Ago 



with chimneys standing against the outside of the 
huts, constructed of small cuts of wood daubed 
with mud, are in evidence at many places, and 
brought forcibly to mind our boyhood days 
spent in the South. The farmers were busy fin- 
ishing planting cotton, sugar cane, rice and corn. 
The early plantings showed in bright green rows 
across the large fields, and the negroes were hard 
at work " hoein' de cotton and de con." 

But it was not our purpose to write about 
the home-coming — the best part of any journey is 
the home-coming, and it w^ill be the best of life's 
journey — but of the remarkable growth of the Church 
of the Brethren in the four Coast States, California, 
Washington, Oregon and Idaho. It is probable that 
there are today more members of the church in these 
states than our entire number a hundred years ago. 

Twenty years ago, when we visited California 
for the first time, there was but one active church 
in the State — that at Covina— and they were then 
building the first church house in southern Cali- 
fornia. There was then not a Brethren's Sunday 
school in the State. In those days Washington 
and Idaho had no churches of the Brethren. In 
Oregon, there were six organized churches, with a 
small membership. Ten years later the half dozen 
congregations on the Pacific Slope had grown 
to twenty-three active, w^orking churches and so 
vigorously was the work of planting churches 



Just Twenty Years Ago 



sands 



carried forward that ten years later, bringing Member 
us to the present time, there are three State Dis- snip 
trids and fifty-three organized, wording congregations -l^ho^" 
of the Church of the Brethren on the Coast, with a 
membership to be counted by thousands instead of 
by scores, as was the case twenty years ago. Should 
the present rate of increase be maintained for 
the next decade, we shall have more than a 
hundred strong, active churches on the Coast» 
and one may look forward to a time, not many 
years hence, when the strength of the church will 
be largely in the West. 

It will bear repeating here that twenty years 
ago there was not a member of the church in 
North Dakota, so far as the writer knows, and 
now there are more than a score of churches in 
that State, with a membership approaching the 
two thousand mark, and one of the most active 
and aggressive State Districts in the Brotherhood. 

These results have been accomplished largely 
by emigration and colonization. It must be con- 
fessed that our people have, as a rule, shown 
marked wisdom in the selection of localities in 
which to colonize and that, for the most part, they 
have been signally successful in their new homes. 
They have not, clannishly, all settled at one place 
but are distributed all over the states named. In 
this way they formed nuclei for the building of 
churches and perfecting organizations. Then 
they began preaching, and soon numbers were 



Coloniza- 
tion in 
Dakota 



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An 

Empire 
to 
Conquer 



New 

England 

Next 



baptized. In one of the State Districts, named 
above, more members were received into church 
relationship by baptism, in one year, than were 
received in two of our State Districts in the 
Middle West. 

There is an empire on the Coast, to conquer 
for Christ and the church, and, given another score 
of years, who will be able to foretell what the 
rich valleys, the alluvial plains and the irrigated 
districts of the Pacific Coast will show for primi- 
tive Christianity? The men who have gone, and 
are going, are for the most part in the prime of life. 
They are active and energetic, they do not belong 
to the class that sit down and wait for something 
to turn up. They are occupying and urging the 
occupation of heretofore unoccupied territory, 
and are aggressively at work. Under the blessing 
of God they have accomplished great things, and 
are expecting great things of the Lord. 

As we write, comes the word that eastern 
Pennsylvania is sending a committee to spy out 
the land in the Northeastern States. If Pennsyl- 
vania will go over to Maine, New Hampshire, 
Massachusetts, and others of these states, and 
locate colonies of our Brethren who are willing to 
do mission work in this way, it will not be many 
years hence when we shall have churches in all 
the New England States. You are moving in the 
right line. Brethren. God bless you in this 
great work! It will help others and help you. 



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Let some of our good eastern Pennsylvania 
farmers go over and help those who are calling 
for just such help as they can give, both spirit- 
ually and temporally. And may the church, both 
east and west, stand united on the principles of 
the Gospel of Christ, so that the great work may 
run and not be hindered. 




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His 
Work 



GEORGE L. McDONAUGH 



George L. McDonaugh has been doing mission 
work by colonization almost exclusively since 
1882. From that date until 1896, he was coloniz- 
ing territory tributary to the Santa Fe. During the 
next three years, his labors were in the northern 
part of the United States, in territory adjacent to 
the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific. 
From that until 1901, he did not travel as much as 
usual, working locally on the Pacific Coast from his 
home in Los Angeles. 

During this period he was often urged by Elder 

Miller and others of his friends to take to the 

road again, and enlarge his usefulness by cover- His 

ing a larger territory and meeting the thousands Acquaint- 

with whom he was acquainted. In the East, ance 

where the Brethren are numerous, he was well 

and favorably known to many hundreds of them; 

in the great West, where millions of acres of 

undeveloped territory were awaiting the tenant, 

he was thoroughly familiar; for while he spent many 

years in the employ of the United States govern- -^. _, 

ment prior to 1882, he had slept rolled up in his 

111 II 1 1 r penence 

blankets under the open canopy, upon the soil or 

every territory of the United States save two — 

Dakota and Montana. 



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While in the employ of the federal govern- 
ment, he became the intimate friend of Senator 
Tj-g John A. Logan, of Illinois; Senator Daniel Voor- 

Friends ^^^s- °f Indiana, and Senator John J. Ingalls, of 
Kansas, and therefore was well and favorably 
know^n at the capitol at Washington. 

With these acquaintances in the East, his per- 
sonal know^ledge of the West, and the inspira- 
tion of his favorite motto, " My Father Planned it 
All, ' a kindly Providence has led him on to great 
successes in his work with, perhaps, a very few 
His mistakes as a colonizer. Elder Miller has been 

Motto for many years closely associated with Brother 
McDonaugh in many ways, and it may be that 
this close friendship and a thorough knowledge of 
methods of w^ork gives some cause for the caution 
in the moral of his well w^ritten article on another 
page in reference to his work. 

Since 1 901 he has been colonizing the territory 
of the Union Pacific and the affiliated lines, as 
shown in the tabulated list of churches furnished 
by the General Secretary and Treasurer of the 
His General Missionary and Tract Committee found 

Mission on another page. At the close of the conference 
at Harrisonburg, Brother McDonaugh took the 
first car load of Brethren as colonists to the 
Pacific Coast, 

JUST TWENTY YEARS AGO 



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